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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: make clflush a required feature on x86_64
Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 06:53:53AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> One problem that we had in the past is that some simulators
>> only implement the absolutely minimum feature set and you
>> might have well broken one of these with this.
>
> Yeah, true. Please ignore the patch folks.
>
> cheers, Kyle

Simulators can be fixed, even if it takes time; for something like
clflush this is easier since clflush can be implemented as a simple noop
for most of them.

I just verified that Bochs 2.3.0 lacks this CPUID bit whereas the
current version, 2.3.6, enables CLFLUSH iff SSE2 is enabled. Qemu 0.9.0
has CLFLUSH. Andi, do you happen to know of any specific simulators
which are problematic? I would assume any recent version of SimNow is
up to date.

-hpa


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